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USER'S MANUAL

VERSION 2.4

DATE April 2010

PROJECT MANAGER Frédéric DESPREZ.

EDITORIAL STAFF Yves CANIOU, Eddy CARON and David LOUREIRO.

AUTHORS STAFF

Abdelkader AMAR, Raphaël BOLZE, Éric BOIX, Yves CANIOU, Eddy CARON, Pushpinder Kaur CHOUHAN, Philippe COMBES, Sylvain DAHAN, Holly DAIL, Bruno DELFABRO, Peter FRAUENKRON, Georg HOESCH, Benjamin ISNARD, Mathieu JAN, Jean-Yves L'EXCELLENT, Gaël LE MAHEC, Christophe PERA, Cyrille PONTVIEUX, Alan SU, Cédric TEDESCHI, and Antoine VERNOIS.

Copyright INRIA, ENS-Lyon, UCBL

Contents
Introduction
A DIET platform
- DIET components
- Communications layer
- DIET initialization
- Solving a problem
- DIET Extensions
DIET installation
- Dependencies
- Compiling the platform
- Diet client/server examples
  - Compiling the examples
DIET data
- Data types
- Data description
- Data management
  - Data identifier
  - Data file
- Manipulating DIET structures
  - Set functions
  - Access functions
- Data Management functions
  - Free functions
- Problem description
- Examples
  - Example 1: without persistency
  - Example 2: using persistency
Building a client program
- Structure of a client program
- Client API
- Examples
  - Synchronous call
  - Asynchronous call
- Compilation
  - Compilation using cmake
Building a server application
- Structure of the program
  - Getting IN, INOUT and OUT arguments
  - Setting INOUT and OUT arguments
- Server API
  - Defining services
  - Declaring services
- Example
- Compilation
Scheduling in DIET
- Introduction
- Default Scheduling Strategy
- Plugin Scheduler Interface
- Example
- Scheduler at agents level
- Future Work
Performance prediction
- Introduction
- FAST: Fast Agent's System Timer
- CoRI: Collectors of Ressource Information
- Future Work
Deploying a DIET platform
- Deployment basics
- GODIET
DIET dashboard
- LogService
- VizDIET
Multi-MA extension
- Function of the Multi-MA extension
- Deployment example
- Search examples
P2P DIET extension: DIET
- P2P and JXTA
- Description of the current architecture developed with JXTA
  - The JXTA components
  - Interfacing JXTA and DIET with JNI
    - The MA
    - The SeD
- The future of DIET
  - Remaining problems
- Working with a DIET platform
  - Installation and configuration
  - Deploying a DIET platform
JuxMem extension
- Introduction
- Overview of JuxMem
- How to configure DIET to use JuxMem?
- Example
- Troubleshooting
Workflow management in DIET
- Overview
- Quick start
- Software architecture
- Workflow description languages
  - MaDag language
  - Gwendia language
- Client API
  - Structure of client program
  - The simplest example
- Scheduling
  - Available schedulers
  - SeD requirements for workflow scheduling
DAGDA extension
- Overview
- The DAGDA configuration options
- Cache replacement algorithm
- The DAGDA API
- On correct usage of DAGDA
- Future works
Dynamic management
- Dynamically modifying the hierarchy
- Changing offered services
Appendix
- Configuration files
Bibliography
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DIET Team. 2010-05-26